Out With It

Saturday, September 5

Doors 7:30 | Show 8PM

Tickets $20-40

Rough House's OUT WITH IT, created and performed by Artistic Director Claire Saxe, tells a wild and lyrical tale of holding things in and letting things go.  In the languages of movement, clown, and found-object puppetry, OUT WITH IT unpacks a tale at once intimate and universal. In a whirlwind 55-minutes, a fastidious clown takes on the forces of chaos: they face off, they spar, they make a mess – and, somehow or other, they come to terms.

In Rough House’s signature “rough-theater" flavor, OUT WITH IT is fabricated from found and repurposed materials. Puppets come to life in a palette of shredded bedsheets, clothes-hanger-wire, and spruced-up cardboard.

Rough House Puppet Arts (Chicago) is on a mission to connect individuals and communities through puppetry-arts, celebrating the weird things that make us unique, and the weirder things that bring us together. Rough House’s work collides puppetry with physical theater, music, visual arts, and an insatiable taste for experimentation.

Artist Bio

Claire Saxe (Creator/Performer) is a puppeteer, performer, and theater maker driven by work that stretches forms, genres and expectations. As an independent artist and Artistic Director of Rough House Puppet Arts her practice interweaves elements of puppetry and physical theater.  Other credits include We Missed the Train and Had to Wait in Steppenwolf Theater’s LookOut series (Creator & Performer), the U.S. tour of Théâtre de l’Entrouvert’s Anywhere (Director),House of the Exquisite Corpse (Co-Creator & Director), Invitation to a Beheading (Co-Creator & Performer), and others. As an actor Claire has performed on regional stages, in storefronts, on festival platforms, and in DIY spaces across the U.S. and U.K.

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